2 Прочитайтеয়। Для каждого предвожения А-Е выберите один правильный вариант ответа из четырех предложенных (1, 2, 3 или 4). Mobile phones No consumer product in history has caught on as quickly sa the mobile phone. The arrival of the mobile phone has transformed our Lfestyles. Mobile phones are no longer just the domain of the teenager and, in fact, just as matty 60 and 70s people now own a a mobile mobile phone as the 15 to 20 age group. Even among the over 50s more than 50% now have a mobile. But the poll reveals that, while men are using their phones a lot more, women are actually spending less time on the phone. The survey shows that the average amount of time women spend on the phone on a weekday has gone down from sixty-three minutes before they got a mobile to fifty-five minutes now. The explanation might lie in the fact that men love to play with techno toys while women may be more conscious of other things like fashion or cooking. Innovation in mobile phones has been happening so fast that it's difficult for consumers to change their behaviour. Phones swallowed up other products like cameras, calculators, clocks, radios, and digital music players. There are more than twenty different products that previously might have been bought separately that can now be part of a mobile phone. Mobiles have changed the way people talk to one another, they have generated a new type of language. they have saved lives and become style icons. Obviously, the rich have been buying phones faster than the poor. But this happens with every innovation. Mobile phone take-up among the poor has actually been far quicker than it was in the case of previous products, such as colour television, computers and Internet access. Indeed, as mobile phones continue to become cheaper and more powerful, they might prove to be more successful in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor than expensive computers. There are obviously drawbacks to mobiles as well: mobile users are two and a half times more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain adjacent to their phone ear, although researchers are unable to prove whether this has anything to do with the phone. Mobile thefts now account for a third of all street robberies in the world, and don't forget about all the accidents waiting to happen as people drive with a mobile in one hand. But, overall, mobile phones have proved to be a big benefit for people. A. Nowadays the mobile phone is the thing that 1) teenagers like most of all. 2) the older generation cannot live without. 3) the most necessary thing among all age groups. 4) has changed people's life tremendously. B. Women tend to use mobile phones less than men because they 1) have more responsibilities. 2) like other innovative things. 3) are less interested in technology. 4) are too busy cooking food. 12